On Monday, Bush spoke at a Bloomberg View event and said “Ronald Reagan would have, based on his record of finding accommodation, finding some degree of common ground, as would my dad — they would have a hard time if you define the Republican Party — and I don’t — as having an orthodoxy that doesn’t allow for disagreement, doesn’t allow for finding some common ground,” according to Buzzfeed.

Bush tweeted a few more times Tuesday morning, writing, “My dad & Reagan sacrificed political points for good public policy,” and, “Past 4 years, Democrats have held leadership roles w/opportunities to reach across political aisle. For sake of politics, they haven’t.”

At the Bloomberg event, Bush said, “Back to my dad’s time and Ronald Reagan’s time — they got a lot of stuff done with a lot of bipartisan support.” He also said Reagan today “would be criticized for doing the things that he did.”

Meanwhile, conservatives in the blogosphere have taken Bush to task for his comments, describing him as a “RINO” and dismissing his “steaming pile of nonsense.”